Overangelic

It would be years sometimes ere he saw the face of a female, and when he did, that face would not be overangelic. Anything of female attire in the camp was treasured as a jewel to be exhibited on special occasions.

They dreamed of no guile, but merely saw in him, whether frequenting camp or town, the same not overangelic comrade whom they valued and could not wholly understand.

Nothing of this erotic brutality remains in the “remake” in Eastman Color made in 1955 by Christian Jaque, with his wife, the overangelic Martine Carol.